I have completed SPG-15 T28 but have not claimed the reward, reason being that I have not yet unlocked the tank I want to recruit the crew member for.

Question is, if I de-activate this mission and go do some other SPG missions in the meanwhile, can I simply activate the mission again to claim the crew member, or do I have to successfully complete SPG-15 again ?

If you try to activate another mission the client says "blah blah mission SPG-15 will be cancelled"

Don't you have to choose nation, specialty, tank etc. as soon as you claim the crew?

Yes, but you can still retrain them for a different tank later, at the loss of base % ofc. As you can only pick tanks on the list you have researched. Don't matter if you own them or not.

OneSock, on 11 October 2017 - 06:08 PM, said:

Question is, if I de-activate this mission and go do some other SPG missions in the meanwhile, can I simply activate the mission again to claim the crew member, or do I have to successfully complete SPG-15 again ?

If you try to activate another mission the client says "blah blah mission SPG-15 will be cancelled"

Atm you can't pick a different mission without claiming the reward. Thus if you do, you will cancel the mission, and possibly the reward. Not 100% sure tho as I've never done that. But next patch you can still pick a different mission, as then all the crew rewards will be moved to a new tab under the map. So it won't lock it like now. Then you can pick a different mission, and wait to activate the crew until you have the tank you want etc. Next patch is 6 days away.

Just claim your girlie and put her in the nearest tank to where you want her to end up. It'll mean later you may have to retrain for crews to get her where you want her but the xp loss is trivial and will make up in a few games.

The only thing you REALLY need to pay attention to is choosing correct nation as that cannot be changed if you get it wrong and also what job as that will cost gold to fix if you get it wrong

Problem is I want her for Emil so I can't even recruit her as a HT commander as I'm still on Medium crew down that line. Could take her as a MT commander but would take double XP hit on retraining (I think)